Solidigm Prepares 122TB Professional SSD for 2025

At FMS 2024, Solidigm showed off the next highest-capacity SSD it will offer its customers in data centers and servers. The “proof of concept” has 122TB of capacity and was shown at the event on a 2U server for testing.

The folks at AnandTech photographed the manufacturer’s official presentation of its new drive, showing off some of its performance figures. The company’s upcoming 122TB SSD connects via PCIe Gen 4 to achieve the performance shown below:

• 4K Random Read: 1269 KIOPS
• Sequential read 128K: 7186 MB/s
• 128K Sequential Write: 3307 MB/s

Based on the data released, the site estimates that Solidigm will opt for QLC NAND in its next large-capacity drive, but the company declined to confirm the information.

Currently, Solidigm is one of the only manufacturers with an SSD above 60TB for servers, joined by Samsung in the competition. The growing demand for ever-increasing capacities, however, is driving more options from other manufacturers, as has been demonstrated at FMS 2024 itself.

SSD capacities keep growing

Solidigm unveiled its 122TB SSD the same week that WD promised a 128TB option for the enterprise. The need for ever-larger capacities has been accelerated by the advent of generative AI, which uses massive amounts of data.

As such, the range of SSDs with higher capacity continues to grow. Even SK Hynix, which already owns Solidigm, has announced that it intends to enter the segment of drives above 60TB using its own name.

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Like everything in the world of technology, the race for products in the professional segment eventually results in new products for home PCs. In other words, the accelerated search for larger SSDs for servers should bring products with large capacities to our homes soon as well. Along with the announcement of its 128TB SSD, for example, WD revealed a 16TB portable drive in testing under its SanDisk brand.